Our Flower Ranges

Your privacy is very important to us and we want to assure you that we take the confidentiality and security of your personal data very seriously.

This privacy policy covers personal data collected by us through this website. This privacy policy explains the following key topics listed below, as well as many other topics:

What personal data we collect and how we collect it

Personal data you provide when you purchase from us

Personal data obtained when you use our website

Personal data obtained if you contact us

How we use the personal data we collect from you

To fulfil your order

For customer care

For marketing

For internal business purposes

Our lawful basis for processing your personal data

Our goal is to keep this privacy policy up to date and, therefore, we recommend that you review this privacy policy periodically. At a minimum, we recommend reviewing this policy together with each new purchase you make with us. We will inform you of material changes to this privacy policy to the extent required by applicable laws.

This website is operated by Interflora British Unit (“Interflora”) together with the local florist identified on this website (“we”, “our”, or “us”). When you send orders or otherwise interact with our website, the local florist is the “data controller” and Interflora is the “data processor”, as those terms are defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). When you send orders for delivery other than by the local florist or outside of the local delivery area, Interflora becomes a “joint data controller” along with the local florist and Interflora is also the “data processor”.

We collect personal data from you whenever you interact with our website, including when you make purchases, when you browse our website, when you use our services or when you sign up to receive any of our services. When providing personal data to us through a form, we indicate which personal data is optional. Please note that, when collection of personal data is required or necessary either as needed for us to fulfil your order or based on legal obligation and you elect not to provide the personal data, we may not be able to accept or fulfil your order.

The types of personal data that we will collect, store, maintain or process includes the following. We provide further details regarding the use of the personal data in Clause 9.

Details of your online browsing activities on our website such as the pages visited and the parts of the website used

Details of the type of device used to access our website, your device IP address, and your device location

Additional Personal Data obtained through contact with us

Details of your interaction with emails that we send you including links that you click and emails that you open

If contact occurs between us, we will keep a record of that correspondence, including your name and contact data, and details of your customer care issues or other concerns and our responses (including any recorded telephone calls)

Our website is not intended for use by persons under the age of 18 and our terms and conditions require that a person be 18 or older when placing an order with us. If you believe we have collected personal data from a person under the age of 18, please notify us at the information provided in Clause 15.

To process payment including payment authorisation via payment card, cheque, gift card or other third party payment processor

To carry out identity verification and fraud prevention checks when purchasing with a payment card and validating personal data you provide via a third party payment processor

To provide data to any third party supplier or vendor who may fulfil your order on our behalf

To provide order confirmation, delivery status notifications on any order placed with us

For customer care purposes:

To address any customer care issues that occur either with respect to a product or service, delivery, or a complaint or enquiry that you or your recipient raise with us

To contact you with any changes, cancellation or other issues with your order

To manage any available registered account you have through the website

To obtain customer feedback with respect to an order either from you or your recipient (to the extent permitted under the applicable law)

NOTE: Please note that you will receive communications with respect to fulfilling your order or for customer care purposes even if you opt out of receiving marketing communications.

For marketing purposes:

To keep you up-to-date with new products and services that we think will be of interest to you

To provide you with promotional offers

To personalise your experience with Interflora by providing products and information tailored to you through your purchasing history with us

To serve you with marketing advertisements based on your browsing history on our website, to the extent you use our website, through cookies on our website or within any available registered account with us. See our Cookie Policy

Notify you of competitions and prize draw offers to enable you to enter and to notify you of any wins

For marketing through third parties:

If you use our website, then you may receive personalised advertisements of our products and services when browsing other websites using the same computer or device you used to view our website. This marketing is enabled through the cookies collecting data of your online browsing behaviour. These cookies are operated either by Interflora or by a third party and the advertisements are provided through a third party. Details of our third party providers are available within Clause 10 of this policy.

We will use any of the personal data collected to help us to understand how many people visit our website, how well the website is working and to consider any improvements we may need to make to the website to improve your online experience. It also helps us determine what products and services you are interested in and what you or other customers might wish to purchase from us in future.

More specifically, we may use your personal data for the following internal business purposes:

To analyse your browsing and purchasing activity on our website, including any search terms you may have entered into our website

To analyse the demographic data we collect when you place your order or otherwise use our website including your title, address, IP address, browser type, and occasions for which you purchase flowers in order to offer you better products and services and improve our business

To analyse customers shopping with us to understand our target audience for the purposes of selecting similar customers for advertising purposes

To analyse delivery location data you provide when placing your order to understand the delivery logistics required for our delivery network

To analyse your responses to our marketing communications

To ensure our online content is presented in the most effective manner for you and your electronic device(s) i.e. tailored for a desktop computer, tablet, iPhone or Android

To obtain customer feedback with respect to an order either from you or your recipient (to the extent permitted under the applicable law) to determine the quality of the customer or recipient experience and to improve customer care experiences

To develop and provide new or improved products or services

For crime and fraud prevention, detection and related matters, including cooperation with the police and similar authorities with their lawful queries and investigations

To confirm your identity, as necessary

To comply with any legal obligation for the purposes of good governance or regulatory guidance with respect to applicable law

With respect to any legal claims or related guidance by our advisors

With respect to any mergers or acquisitions or other business or legal affairs as further described in Clause 10

You have the right to opt out of receiving direct marketing communications at any time. We will address your opt out request as soon as possible, but no longer than one month from the date we receive your request.

You may opt out of marketing communications or change your preferences with respect to marketing communications by:

Unsubscribing from emails using the unsubscribe link which can be found in all marketing emails

Unsubscribing from any SMS messaging by texting “STOP” to the number included in the SMS message

You are not required to accept cookies in order to make a purchase. For example, you may place an order through a direct mail or coupon campaign or through our customer call centre. However, by making a purchase through our website, you agree to our Cookie Policy, which includes more information about disabling cookies. See our Cookie Policy.

We will never ask you to confirm any bank account or credit card details in writing or via email. If you receive an email or any other written communication claiming to be from us, asking you to provide this data, please ignore it and do not respond.

If you are using a computing device in a public location, you should always log out and close the website browser when you have finished your online session.

If you create an account with us, you must keep your password private and avoid using the same password for multiple online accounts. Any password created should be at least 8 characters long and must include at least one upper case letter, one lower case letter and one symbol. We recommend regularly changing your password, which you can do within your account.

We rely on different lawful basis for processing personal data. In some cases, more than one lawful basis may apply with respect to the same personal data.

Contract: We collect and process personal data in order to fulfil the order you place with us, and in accordance with our contract with you to fulfil your order. Such personal data includes the items detailed in Clause 4 under the title “To fulfil your order”.

Legitimate Interest: We collect and process personal data for our legitimate interests in fulfilling and processing your order, any customer care issues, to conduct research, to send email and direct marketing to you, handling legal claims, and for fraud identification and prevention checks. Such personal data includes the items detailed in Clause 4 under the title “For customer care purposes”, “For marketing purposes”, “For marketing through third parties” and “For internal business purposes”. With respect to any direct marketing we provide on the basis of a legitimate interest, you can unsubscribe as described in Clause 5.

Consent: In addition to the legitimate interests outlined above, we rely on the consent you have provided as the legal basis for our marketing communications. You can unsubscribe to the marketing communications as described in Clause 5. Please note that withdrawing your consent may not be sufficient to cease all communications or for us to delete your personal data since we may have another lawful basis or ongoing reason we need to keep personal data such as a new purchase or recordkeeping legal obligations. Please further note that if you make a purchase with us after you have withdrawn your consent, we may collect and use personal data in accordance with this privacy policy with respect to that purchase and you will be asked for consent for marketing communications again.

Legal Obligations: We are required to comply with applicable laws, rules and regulations as well as industry standards and orders by courts with jurisdiction over us. In doing so, we may collect and retain personal data. For example, we create and maintain records of your orders to maintain the tax and accounting records required by applicable laws, and to share such records with the tax authorities as and when required.

We will share your personal data with certain third parties in order to fulfil and process your order where delivery is outside of the local delivery, enable us to perform our contract to provide your purchase to you, provide our website and provide you with marketing.

The following is a list of types of third parties that may receive your personal data. Our third party providers are required to handle your personal data in accordance with appropriate data protection and security controls.

Interflora British Unit: As mentioned above, Interflora operates the website and assists with fulfilment of orders outside of the local delivery by us.

Fulfilment Partners: Interflora shares personal data with other Interflora florists, who are independently owned and operated businesses, for the fulfilment and delivery of your orders. We, through Interflora, will also use other third party fulfilment partners such as wholesalers for certain products and postal and courier services. Our florists and fulfilment partners may contact you or the recipient to assist in fulfilling your order. More specifically, on some occasions, you or the recipient may be contacted to schedule delivery or verify delivery information and availability. To maintain our high quality standards, we may contact recipients to ensure satisfaction with their gift.

Interflora/Mercury Man Affiliates: To the extent that your order is for delivery outside of the local delivery by us, Interflora may share personal data with its affiliates from time to time including Interflora’s parent company FTD Companies, Inc. and its subsidiaries (FTD) and those affiliates who may subsequently be acquired by Interflora, its parent company or its affiliated companies. If you have ordered a product for international delivery, this may also include other third party entities who fulfil orders under the Mercury Man network for international floral and gifting delivery.

IT Suppliers and Vendors: In order to manage our operations, Interflora contracts with third parties who provide security and technical services to protect our website, maintain databases of personal data for the purposes outlined in this privacy policy and present website content.

Flower and Gifting Suppliers (other than Interflora Florist Members): In order to fulfil customer orders, we contract with third parties who provide flowers, plants and gifting such as wine, chocolates, food and food hampers.

Financial/Payment Service Providers: In order to process customer orders placed with us, Interflora contracts with payment service companies who process payment, ensure security of your transactions, and prevent or detect fraudulent transactions.

Marketing Service Providers: Interflora contracts with third parties who:

Market Research Providers: In order to continually improve our customer experience, Interflora contracts with third parties who provide market research services which include collating and reporting of customer feedback, and collate and provide customer feedback via customer surveys.

Website Improvement: In order to improve our online customer experience, Interflora contracts with third parties who help us identify and make improvements to our website, provide website traffic data and website performance analysis information, and provide analysis on website performance focused on customer experience.

Customer Service Providers: In order to provide the best possible customer services to our customers, Interflora contracts with third parties who provide call handling services for the purposes of taking customer orders, customer order enquiries and dealing with any customer care issues and provide ‘Live Chat’ functionality.

In addition to the reasons identified above, we may provide your personal data to third parties in the following circumstances:

Law Enforcement/Government Requests: We may be required by law to provide personal data to law enforcement, a government agency or in response to a search warrant, subpoena or other legally valid enquiry or order, or to an investigative body or civil litigant including emergency situations. We may also disclose personal data when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to comply with relevant laws, for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, to prevent and address fraud and other illegal activity, to prevent death or imminent bodily harm, or to protect or defend the rights, property or safety of our users, others and ourselves.

Business and Legal Purposes/Mergers and Acquisitions: There may be business or legal reasons to disclose personal data. As an example, we may transfer data we have about you to third parties in connection with an actual or potential merger, consolidation, reincorporation, sale/divestiture, acquisition or other similar transaction involving all or part of our company or any affiliate, or as part of a corporate reorganisation or stock sale or other change in corporate control. If we undergo such a business transition, personal data may be one of the assets that may be shared or transferred as part of the business transition and used by such third party as though such third party were Interflora.

We will only retain your personal data for the purposes set out in this policy and for as long as we have a legal or business requirement to do so. Different retention periods apply for different types of personal data, however, the longest we will normally hold any personal data is 7 years after the last contact with such person or purchase by such person. The time period for retention will depend on applicable laws, rules or regulations that we are required to follow, whether there is an ongoing request or query or other type of legal claim or dispute, the type of information we are holding and whether we are asked by you or a regulatory authority to keep the personal data.

Your personal data may be sent outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Interflora will share personal data with its parent company FTD, certain third party providers for the purpose of: (a) fulfilling orders placed for national and international delivery by you, (b) customer care, and (c) as otherwise outlined in Clause 10.

Consequently, personal data may be processed in what are considered “third countries”. It is important to understand that “third countries” are not automatically deemed by the European Commission to have adequate legal protections for personal data or individual data subject rights. We have implemented appropriate technical and organisational measures and adequate safeguards to protect personal data by entering into standard contractual clauses with data recipients in such “third countries”. We are committed to continuously developing and improving the measures we already have in place.

Some of the organisations that we share personal data with may process it overseas. If any disclosures of personal data mean that your personal data will be transferred outside the European Economic Area, we will only make that transfer if: (a) the country to which the personal data is to be transferred ensures an adequate level of protection for personal data; (b) we have put in place appropriate safeguards to protect your personal data, such as an appropriate contract; (c) the transfer is necessary for one of the reasons specified in Clause 9, such as fulfilment of an international order under the contract between us and you; or (d) you consent to the transfer.

We fully respect that your personal data is owned by you and that you have certain rights with respect to the personal data. Our goal is to respect your rights. Please understand that we may have certain obligations to maintain personal data records despite your requests to exercise the following rights, such as for legal and accounting purposes. We ask that you read these rights carefully.

Right of Access (also known as “Subject Access Request”): To receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you, please contact us, see the Contact Details in Clause 15. Please understand that you will need to provide a copy of two of the following separate pieces of identification:

Passport

Driving licence

Birth certificate

Utility bill (covering the last 3/6 months)

Current vehicle registration document

Bank statement (covering the last 3/6 months)

Rent book (covering the last 3/6 months)

Right to Rectification: You may ask us to update and correct any out-of-date or incorrect personal data that we hold about you, or to complete incomplete personal data. In order to update your personal data, please visit our Privacy Hub.

Right to Erasure (also known as “the Right to be Forgotten”): For a limited list of reasons, you may request that your personal data is removed from our systems.

Right to Restrict: For a limited list of reasons, you may request that we cease using or that we suppress your personal data.

Right to Object: You may object to our use of your personal data.

Right to Data Portability: Where we use your personal data based on your consent or to enter or perform a contract with you, and our processing is carried out by automated means, you may request that any personal data you have provided to us be transmitted electronically to you or to another supplier (to the extent feasible).

Please note that if we erase all information about you and you make a future purchase or otherwise become a future customer, then we will not be aware of your prior requests or objections.

In respect of the additional rights outlined above, we request that you contact us via the Contact Details shown in Clause 15 below and we will provide you with additional information regarding your rights in connection with your specific request.

Right to Lodge a Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority. Interflora’s supervisory authority is the Information Commissioner’s Office, see website www.ico.org.uk for details.

Interflora has appointed a Data Protection Officer whose role is to inform and advise on data protection laws. The Data Protection Officer should be your point of contact if you have any queries or concerns about personal data provided through this website.

Our goal is to keep this privacy policy up to date. Therefore, we recommend that you review this privacy policy periodically. At a minimum, we recommend reviewing this policy together with each new purchase you make with us. We will inform you of material changes to this privacy policy in accordance with the applicable law.

We may use technology to track the patterns of behaviour of registered and non-registered visitors to our site. This can include using a "cookie" which is a small file stored on your browser. The information collected in this way can be used to identify you unless you modify your browser to prevent this happening - guidance for which is set out below. We also aggregate this data to perform statistical analyses of the characteristics and behaviour of visitors to our website. Cookies are also used as a further means of ensuring private and secure purchase sessions are operated within the website.

We may use third party advertising companies to serve advertisements on our behalf. These companies may employ cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags is completely anonymous. Your browser can be modified to not accept cookies - guidance for which is provided in the paragraph below.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser (for example, using Internet Explorer select 'internet options' from the 'tools' menu, then click 'security', followed by 'custom level' and select 'disable cookies'). However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our website if cookies are disabled. For more information about cookies, including how to set your internet browser to reject cookies, please go to www.allaboutcookies.org.